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HERAT, Afghanistan: In the eastern Afghan city of Herat, 18-year-old high school student Somaya Faruqi adjusts a suction cap as...

PARIS: French authorities have reported 400 to 500 active coronavirus outbreak clusters but there are no signs of an imminent...

LONDON: Britain has signed deals to secure 90 million doses of two possible COVID-19 vaccines from the Pfizer and BioNTech...

TOKYO: A Human Rights Watch report has found child athletes in Japan often suffer physical and verbal abuse and sometimes...

SINGAPORE: Mr Yeoh Oon Jin, executive chairman of PwC Singapore, will succeed Mr Lim Sim Seng as board chairman of...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is losing up to 25 per cent of its potential palm oil yield due to a labour...

SINGAPORE: Japanese home-goods chain Muji said that its business in Singapore and Malaysia "will be as usual" despite the United...

KUALA LUMPUR: Senior executives of Goldman Sachs have flown in to Malaysia for talks with the government on the recovery...

MILAN: Huawei Technologies will continue working with Telecom Italia despite being shut out of a recent tender to supply new...

EBay Inc is in advanced talks to sell its classified-ads unit to Norwegian group Adevinta as the online auction pioneer...

During a blue-sky moment in 2018 near the end of a decade-long economic expansion, it was the United States that...

SHANGHAI: Chinese Super League (CSL) clubs were warned their season could be over if they break strict coronavirus rules, as...

HONG KONG: Global wealth managers are examining whether their clients in Hong Kong have ties to the city's pro-democracy movement,...

SINGAPORE: When asked to describe a typical lunchtime situation before COVID-19 at her fashion store, Butterflies & Marigolds, Ms Elsie...

SYDNEY: Australia will extend its coronavirus loan guarantee scheme for small businesses and increase the credit limit to up to...

LONDON: Nearly half of Britain's biggest companies think it will take until the second half of 2021 before business recovers...

TOKYO: Just one in four people in Japan want to see the coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Games held next year, with most...

LONDON: Britain will on Monday (Jul 20) suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in a further escalation of its...

TOKYO: Japan's exports suffered a double-digit decline for the fourth month in a row in June as the coronavirus pandemic...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's 84-year-old ruler King Salman bin Abdulaziz has been admitted to King Faisal Specialist hospital in the capital...